The deities here have taken Shakespeare's famous words to heart, and shaped their entire world into the form of a stage. In addition to the most well engineered stage, the Theater also boasts the best orchestra in the multiverse, seating that accommodate entire planetary populations, a high tech and efficient backstage management system, and the best stage ninjas. They also have a direct line with the library in the House of Knowledge, giving them access to every single play in existence. Most of the time, their performances are sold out on the first day and are forced to resort to standing room only to accommodate everyone.

The Theater deities once attempted to do a full performance of The King in Yellow with "mixed" results. Suffice to say, the lead actor in that particular play now goes by the nickname "The Joker".

Due to the power of stories on the Pantheon as a whole, a disproportionate number of members are also members of the Main House. Tread lightly.

Please note the following, though:

Dream of the Endless, Prince of Stories was once a member of this pantheon, but ascended before time (and, yes, thereby before the existence of this pantheon... deal with it) resides in (some say lead) the Main House.

There is also a designated Master of the Pre-Mortem One-Liner, but due to his threat levels among lower- and equal-ranked deities, was advised not to enter this house. He currently resides in the House of War.

Hata no Kokoro, Goddess of Masks, has a small stage built for her so that she can perform her noh theatre acts here.

For that same reason, he can also be seen hanging out with Sherlock Holmes.

Several gods in the Pantheon noticed similarities between the physical appearances of Chaplin and Hitler of the Downfall Bunker (most notably the toothbrush moustache). While Hitler didn’t particularly like Chaplin, whom he mistakenly believed to be Jewish, he apparently owned a private copy of The Great Dictator that he watched twice. Chaplin himself had regret for that film, as he said that he wouldn’t have have made it had he knew about Hitler’s story.

Being one of the most universally recognizable people of all time, it’s no surprise that several gods in the Pantheon have paid tribute to him.

The aforementioned Mickey Mouse imitated Chaplin by dressing up like him in Mickey Plays Papa (1934).

Grampaonce tried to imitate Chaplin's bread roll dance from The Gold Rush, but was then forced to quit on order of a lawyer acting on behalf of Chaplin's estate.

Jackie Chan paid homage to Chaplin in Project A in which the clock stunt was inspired by Chaplin's Modern Times.

Chaplin was once pitted against fellow silent movie star, Buster Keaton, in a brutal fight to the deathwhich ended with Chaplin being ran over by a train. Despite this, he has great respect for Keaton, even giving him a cameo in Limelight.

Albert Einstein is glad to see Chaplin in the Pantheon and once recalled the time the comedian invited him as a guest of honor to attend the premiere of his film, City Lights.

Has a complicated relationship with Stan Laurel, currently one of the High Priests of Pieing with his friend Oliver Hardy. They went to school together, but Chaplin never forgave Laurel for impersonating him in his early days, before finding his own voice. Laurel still has incredible respect for Chaplin, however. When they meet in the pantheon Chaplin tends to ignore Laurel.

Mickey is largely considered the great-grandfather of many animated characters. The explanations for this theory range from the nonchalant to the downright bizarre, since he is an anthropomorphic mouse, and many of his supposed offspring...are not.

He personally redecorated his throne room into a posh nightclub, which is frequented by many of his friends from his youth.

Enjoys skydiving with Bugs Bunny over Toontown occasionally in his spare time. The two have an ironic friendship despite being from rival companies, and having extremely different personalities.

He pulled the impossible as he managed to induce aHeel–Face Turn against someone as horrifying as The Mad Doctor. His former house in the Theater Pantheon is now empty, but Mickey achieved the thanks not just from the doctor himself, but also from many that was terrified by his debut cartoon. "That's what being a hero about."

Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are often seen together, "even when they're made of wood". The trio once gotten themselves lost in Paris, France, after Goofy accidently dropped their luggage into the River Seine. They soon crashed into a party held by Dimitri Lousteau, though he forgave them, since they had no idea where they were. Very fortunate that Dimitri has diving equipment, since they need a diver to collect the luggage. Since then, he often takes the trio, alongside their friends, on his cruses, though swimming isn't allowed, due to a "misfortune" involving Donald and Goofy.

Vanitas's recent ascension has made him more nervous than he'd care to admit. upon learning of it, he's warned all of Madoka's friends about Vanitas's plot to forge the χ-blade in the aftermath of the Pantheonic Rebellion. He has no idea that Vanitas intends to use Sailor Moon instead of Madoka.

Since many gods exist in the pantheon that are either pure light or pure dark, Mickey has formed a security group with the GUAG to prevent gods of the opposing elements from clashing with one another, lest resulting in them forming the χ-blade by "accident". Asides the clash between Vanitas and Ventus, the closest this has ever happened is the attempted murder of Cinderella (a Princess of Heart) by the Tremaine family (a chaotic evil familyof darkness).

Mickey can show good leadership, especially when it came to the Darkness Proxy during "Project: Alternate!Gentaro". Even when Sora and Riku became either sick or corrupted, Mickey never backed down for a minute, though he does somewhat blame himself for letting Sora almost die in the asylum's destruction.

Mickey absolutely despises the Disney Channel sitcoms for being unfaithful to the name of Disney, and for being aimed exclusively at teenage girls. His hatred is so bad that he even praises the Nickelodeon sitcoms for having a larger target audience and for better writing.

There was one time where Mickey played Bob Cratchit in a (surprisingly not Disneyfied) adaptation of A Christmas Carol. The way he acted in that film, especially in the scene where Bob is at Tiny Tim's grave, moved even the most stoic to tears.

Unlike his creator, Mickey is generally welcoming of sequel-based deities, and is known to have stood up for Sam and Melody when they were mistreated. He understands Walt's hatred of sequels and remakes, but believes that the characters from them shouldn't be attacked for existing, as it is not their fault.

A great entertainer, his works have been shown daily in the Pantheon for the last three hundred years.

The only known possible challenger to his title is Sophocles, but the Greek playwright had to admit Shakespeare's had the advantage in name recognition. Today they're said to be working together on an adaptation of the Great Pantheon War.

Jack and Annie once visited him in the past, and played as fairies in "A Midsummer's Night Dream". When William found the two in the Pantheon, he asked if they could be on hand to act in a few more plays for him. Both graciously agreed to help.

Most of his characters, after hearing his ascension, has all flooded to his temples. While a lot of them are grateful that he created them, a few of the more unreasonable and villainous ones demands a rewrite. Shakespeare has avoided them ever since.

LadyMacbeth pretends to be on good term with him but secretly plots to overthrow him to let her and her husband to have his power.

George R. R. Martin is a fan of Shakespeare even though Martin doesn't like the Historical Villain Upgrade Shakespeare did to King Richard.

His playwright skills allowed him to be summoned as a Servant during a Great Holy Grail War, where he was capable of inflicting mind tragedies onto his enemies, despite his atrocious physical stats. Those who worked with him during that time are very wary that Shakespeare can be a dangerous person, because as long as he thinks it'll make an interesting story (read: TONS OF TRAGEDIES), he'll do exactly that.

In fact, one of his victims was none other than Jeanne d'Arc, who he used his Noble Phantasm on to crush her fighting spirit during the final confrontation with Amakusa Shirou. Needless to say, she didn't like this experience and will get back at him if he tries to use First Folio on her again. This is not even getting into her reaction upon finding out about his work that made her look like a devilish witch...

Also rumor has it that during that particular war, he wrote a new epic based on his experiences there. Unfortunately, no one has seen it on print, and Shakespeare isn't telling where he kept it, and what kind of story he wrote.

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